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Advice for professors at the beginning of their career (opinion)
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. BRO Vector/iStock/Getty Images Plus As provost, I have spent this summer imagining what I will say to welcome our new faculty this fall. Little is more exciting than starting college as a first-year student or beginning a new job as a first-time faculty member. And yet it is a volatile time in our precious sector. The attacks from outside and the challenges within can be overwhelming and dispiriting.
Tips for managing hard classroom conversations (opinion)
In college classrooms across the country, faculty members are teaching while the world is watching the Ukrainian-Russian conflict unfold. Professors are navigating student responses to this historical event that range from shock, dismay, outrage and fear to deep sadness, while simultaneously managing their own internal emotional landscapes. Classrooms offer the opportunity to have difficult conversations in turbulent times. But those conversations can be hard—really hard.
A Tribute to bell hooks
JANUARY 15, 2022 Introduction by George Yancy AS I THOUGHT about how to frame what to say about bell hooks (who died of end-stage renal failure just before the new year, on December 15, 2021), no phrase or terminology came to mind with ease that captured exactly what I felt.
Ensuring that an external review of your area has a positive impact (opinion)
In previous essays, I discussed how to strategize an external review of your institutional area -- from conducting initial in-house planning conversations to designing the campus visit. In this piece, I’ll discuss what you should do after you’ve received such a review. The scenario often goes something like the following. The external review report arrives. Everyone reads and digests it. You crack open the champagne and confirm that the report has gone up the chain. And then you wash your hands of it.
Advice for effectively planning an external review visit on your campus (opinion)
In a previous essay, I outlined four ways to get ready so you can make the most of an external review. In this piece, I’ll share some best practices for scheduling on-campus review visits. The scheduling itself is not difficult, just time-consuming. The real effort is in the strategy, and it requires you to use goals, people and time creatively. Plot the timing and meetings for the campus visit.
Tips on hiring an external reviewer, framing a self-study and designing the review process (opinion)
Is your area up for outside evaluation? In higher education, we typically know these as external reviews. And they frequently elicit strong feelings. Are you excited? Panicked? Irritated? Exhausted? Do you have no idea where to begin? Some institutions have a culture of requiring regular external reviews and some do not. Some institutions have an external review system in place. Even better, some link those reviews to accreditation and budgets, thus bolstering further accountability.
A Manifesta for Girls Entering Kindergarten
In one month, my daughter heads to Kindergarten. Naturally, there’s a range of parental feeling sending a child off to what begins 12 years of potential formal schooling. Last year, on the first day of Kindergarten, a mom posted a picture that went viral of her jokingly having a drink in her bathrobe at 8 a.m. as her daughter leaves for school. Some thought it hilarious, others glommed onto it as a chance to be judgey.
The value of crossover scholarship for academics (essay)
When I started my dissertation in the late 1990s, I knew I wanted to speak to a broader public, but I didn’t know how to do it. People around me thought I was nuts. Fast-forward to 2016, and academics are increasingly moving more readily between scholarly circles and public ones. Public intellectuals like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, bell hooks and Parker J. Palmer have written for multiple audiences and made an impact.
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